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The Plan to Ban TikTok is Outright Xenophobia (www.currentaffairs.org)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Congress’s moves against TikTok threaten freedom of speech and are grounded in baseless anti-Chinese hysteria. That dangerous fearmongering attitude appears to be becoming bipartisan consensus.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't know, banning it from the app store would definitely reduce the number of users but if the app is already on the device it's not going anywhere. Plus it's a free app so at least with Android it's easy enough to side load it or get it from a website like APKPure or somewhere else. All you got to do is change a little setting and allow the installation of apps from unknown sources in your browser. This would have the effect of introducing whole new vectors for infection and compromise.

On the flip side I do see it as a legitimate national security threat so really it's a no-win situation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

but if the app is already on the device it's not going anywhere

Google can remotely remove and install apps, even without user notice. I mean that it is a current (old) ability of their preinstalled software.
But also, people change phones, or sometimes reset it.

Plus it's a free app so at least with Android it's easy enough to side load it or get it from a website like APKPure or somewhere else

Not sure how many of them would try that. Most average people don't know how to use their phone, only how to use the services made for them. Or at least that's how I see it nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not sure how many of them would try that. Most average people don't know how to use their phone, only how to use the services made for them. Or at least that's how I see it nowadays.

They're one YouTube video away from VPN and APKPure.

Google can remotely remove and install apps, even without user notice.

TIL. Time to think a little harder about de-googling.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

TIL. Time to think a little harder about de-googling.

As a proof, open the app's page on the play store on your web browser on PC, you'll be offered to install the app to one of your devices logged in. It's the inverse, not the exact thing I said, but closely related